gismo

[giz-moh]

gis·mo

[giz-moh]
noun, plural gis·mos. Informal.
a gadget or device: What is this gismo supposed to do?
Also, gizmo.


Origin:
1940–45; origin uncertain
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Gismo is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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World English Dictionary
gizmo or gismo (ˈɡɪzməʊ)
 
n , pl -mos
slang a device; gadget
 
[C20: of unknown origin]
 
gismo or gismo
 
n
 
[C20: of unknown origin]

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